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Call to craft workplace policies for dementia

Alzheimer’s disease is now a workplace issue and Barbados will have to deal with it. Executive board member of the Barbados Alzheimer’s Association, Kaila Branch, said younger people worldwide were...
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Respect the cane!

Barbadians are being urged to be more vigilant and respectful of visually impaired people using white canes, as...
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Jamaica considers tougher measures to curb unhealthy consumption

KINGSTON – The Ministry of Health is considering legislation and other tougher measures to curb unhealthy consumption, including...
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Doctor: Younger women becoming more at risk

Barbados has the highest breast cancer death rate in the world, with younger women also facing more aggressive...
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Natalie Headley: She felt it. She fought it. She survived.

Given her family’s genetic history, Natalie Headley felt that one day breast cancer could eventually find her. And...
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DENGUE ALERT!

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DENGUE AL ERT! Dengue (pronounced DENgee) cases are on the increase in the Caribbean, and so far for the year in Barbados there have been just under 40 people hospitalised out of 301 suspected and eight confirmed cases. Dengue is caused by any one of four viruses transmitted to people through the bites of infected Aedes species of mosquitoes (primarily Ae. aegypti or Ae. albopictus
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Rain Tree a giant silent doctor

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ANNette maynard-watson “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the...
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